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OK, that looks different from what the governor was quoted on. From the article you posted, immediately before the section you quoted starting with "In this particular example" the governor said:
There are no qualifiers besides "impair mental health of the woman", which is so vague it opens the door to selective murder.
"and it’s done in cases where there may be severe deformities, there may be a fetus that’s non-viable."
the governor also says:
"and so, you know, I would certainly support more than one provider."
which puts him in opposition to the changes to the current law that were proposed by Tran. I think the outrage over what the governor said is overblown, but the bill, which I understand was killed, looks like it goes a bit far to lower the bar in sub 2. Actually, now that I've seen the full text there are a lot of deletions in sections that more clearly divide the sides and these deletions here provided a way to defeat the changes without looking at the other changes.